LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Danish Gas Tanker Inga Tholstrup (1)
Gas tanker aground A DANISH GAS TANKER, Inga Tholstrup, ran aground on Craig Waugh, two miles south east of Inchkeith in the Firth of Forth, early in the morning of Monday November 10, 1986. Forth Coastguard alerted Dunbar lifeboat station,...
The S.S. Trinity
Cromarty. — In the afternoon of the llth of November, 1951, the S.S.
Trinity, of Panama, wirelessed that she had been damaged and needed a pilot. She would be off Cromarty that night, and asked for a boat to meet her at...
The S.S. Keynes
Caister, Norfolk.—At 9.50 on the morn- ing of the 15th of August, 1955, localshipping agents asked if the life-boat would take ashore a sick man from the S.S. Keynes, of London, which was lying at anchor two miles north-west of North Cockle...
High Hopes
Engine failed MEMBERS OF REDCAR ILB CREW, Standing by in the boathouse on Thursday morning, June 10, sighted, at 1000, a red flare beyond Saltscar Buoy some three miles east of the ILB station.
The ILB was launched at 1005...
Eastern Morn
Barrow, Lancashire - At 11.15 p.m.
on 2 ist June, 1967, it was noted that a May-day message had been received from the motor fishing vessel Eastern Morn. The life-boat Herbert Leigh was launched at 11.38 in a west south...
Lifeboat Services
LIFEBOAT AREA No.1 Trawler Snatch WHIN the Longhope, Orkney, lifeboat station was informed at 11.54 p.m. on February 9 that the trawler Ross Tern was ashore on Troma Island and was breaking up, the lifeboat crew mustered in good...
Category: Services
A Drifter
Filey, Yorkshire.—14th September.
A drifter went ashore in a fog, but was towed off by motor cobles.—Rewards, £20 14s. 6d..
New Ways of Raising Money
THERE has been some very encouraging news of the activities of youthful supporters of the life-boat service. The junior section of the Edinburgh branch, which has been growing steadily in strength, recently organised a junior gymkhana at a...
Category: Donations
Selection of a New Life-Boat
THIS question was briefly touched on in the article in this Journal on " The Changes in the Institution's Life-boat Fleet since 1897," published in February last. Not very many years ago it was brought as a charge against the...
Category: Articles
Dulcie Doris
TWO MEN FROM LONGSHORE BOAT LANDED Lowestoft, Suffolk. At 2.28 on the afternoon of the 22nd January, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the Lowestoft trawler Unda had picked up two men from the longshore boat Dulcie...